From the category archives:
I came across a free tool called Fing. If you have ever forgotten the IP address of that wireless router in the corner, or quickly need the IP of one of your printers – this is the tool to do it. I had a Xerox printer that had been moved from our old office. The […]
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Last week Travis emailed me about an interesting utility called CryPing: “..I use a TCP Ping utility instead of ICMP because it provide more flexibility and better results. The tool I use is CryPing..” He is right it being more flexible. Instead of the standard ICMP ping, you can ping an HTTP port on a […]
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James asked this week: “Hi Steve. I liked your script that automatically disabled the wireless card when the Ethernet was enabled. But I was wondering, how about a script that ran when a ping to a server timed out? “ This is not as hard as it sounds – we can use the ping command […]
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A few weeks back, Patrick sent me an email showing a script he used to track what users had logged on to a machine. In his email he mentioned something: “.. If I am having a problem with a specific person I use “Activity Monitor” and log everything on that machine..” Thanks for the tip […]
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Yesterday I received an email from Andrew: “Hi Steve. I have been looking for a really simple utility. I am always on the phone with users, and sometimes it takes forever to walk them through and have them find their IP address or host name. I remember your post about BGInfo, but that program puts […]
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A few weeks ago I wrote an article about seeing who logged on to a computer. After many of you emailed me, I started to investigate how accurate the script was – and it turns out not so much. That script uses a WMI object to get its information. It returns what windows considers a […]
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Back in May John asked: “Hi There Is there a tool that can run and provide a list of “last logon” with date and time, I need something to show like a activity list. It would help re-deploying PC’s from one location to another based on use.” I am glad you asked about this John. […]
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Elizabeth asked this week: “Hi Steve, I have been using the free version of Network Administrator for quite a while and I really like it. I was wondering, is there any way you could use this to show me the percentage and amount of space that is free on the C drive of computers on […]
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We have been working hard on a new remote execution engine for Network Administrator It really is a difficult problem to tackle with Windows 7, Vista, and 2008 in the mix. UAC, and other security features make it nearly impossible get something like this to work properly – but we have come up with some […]
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A while a go Wil asked the question: “Is there a tool available in Windows 7 to check and measure wireless signal strength. It would show where your weak areas and dead spots are, using whatever card is built into the PC. Thanks” We actually have had our own tool to do this internally for […]
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